Definitions
Etymologies
- From German Diktat, from Latin dictātum, supine of dictō ("dictate") (Wiktionary)
- German, from Latin dictātum, from neuter past participle of dictāre, to dictate; see dictate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Therefore i suggest you state due to an immediate Police priority you have concluded that in this case that discrestional avoidance of the aforementioned H&S diktat is necessary.”
“A "diktat" -- let's start spelling it right -- is an "authoritative or dogmatic statement or decree.”
“The diktat is the latest cultural control slapped on broadcasters in what is a highly sensitive political year for China.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
“There was no appeal against the Earl's diktat, which is evidence of the vast powers he had over the hoi polloi.”
“Maybe I was reading too deeply into things due to the time I had spent on the Pure Romance site, but I couldn't help thinking that the Great Head trail map looked a lot like a "diktat:”
“If this problem is not dealt with and resolved, there is really nothing to discuss, there is nothing but to bend the knee before the "diktat" of Hanoi and Moscow.”
“And in case you didn't notice, he also throws in a Communist term "diktat" so you dummies will be totally repulsed and imagine Stalin lurking.”
Timothy Karr: Telcos Turn to Stalin for Help Against Net Neutrality
“The new "diktat" lets the FBI conduct investigations up to a year without having to show suspicion of criminal activity.”
“Diplomats say that France has taken such a strong stand because it objects to Washington's "diktat" at the United Nations which led to the brutal dropping of support for Boutros-Ghali six months ago.”
“They were suspended for four years for beating up Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi for not following their leader Raj Thackeray's "diktat" of taking oath as MLA in Marathi.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘diktat’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
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Vocab
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JimboBaggins's list
paraphenalia
haberdashery, desideratum, esoteric, retribution, retrograde, tetrahedron, iridescent, tentative, siphon, soothsayer, wanderlust, patina and 16 more...
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Pseudodemons
Potential dukes, duchesses, and chief petty officers of hell.
Inspired by whichbe's demongering.ashgabat, súrsaðir hrútspungar, arrghus, spizzerinctum, duniewassal, xiphiplastron, agassiz, thrombokinase, squalus suckleyi, rauwolfia serpentina, pipistrelle, qualtagh and 66 more...
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Review
Words to study and become more familiar with.
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
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anotherfailedattempt's Words
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
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Daily
Daily Vocab List
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
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favorite words
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SAVED FAVES
Listless no more,
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
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hagendas 2008
mise-en-scene, occultation, lodestone, obdurate, remontoire, filigree, insensate, carapace, vicissitude, verdigris, indivuation, intercalate and 224 more...
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